It’s not clear what the point of this NYTimes Style section piece is but it quotes Christie’s Amy Cappellazzo at length about the hunk of quartz that sits on her desk:

“It’s pretty modest,” she said. “In a way, it is a dumb rock. But that is sweet. I kind of like that. So the thing is, it is totally phenomenological. Like, it is something if I think so: this dumb rock could actually be imbued with tremendous power if I wanted it to be.”

Meanings in the Market (New York Times)